Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Jarvis, David P. May 22, 1836 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 October 25, 2008, 1:31 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Jarvis, David P., Russia, the younger son of Thomas and Mary Jarvis, was born in Canavashire, Wales, May 22, 1836; came to this country in 1841; 1843 came to George Pitman's, in Russia, where he lived until after Mr. Pitman's death, which occurred July 4, 1853. Commenced clerking in Prospect; February, 1854, came to Poland as clerk in union store, where he remained until November, 1861, when he enlisted in Company B, Ninth New York Cavalry. In 1862, while on the Peninsula in Virginia, was taken sick with typhoid fever and was removed to Patterson Park Hospital, Baltimore. As soon as he recovered sufficiently he took charge of a sick ward, where he served eight months. He was then given the position of mail agent for the hospital, and as such served until the expiration of his enlistment, November 22, 1864. July, 1865, he returned to his place in the Poland Union. In 1870 he became agent for the store, which position he still holds. Mr. Jarvis is a member of Newport Lodge, No. 455, F. & A.M., and of Poland Lodge, No. 185, A.O.U.W. In politics he is a Republican. October, 1866, he married Lucia M., daughter of John and Thankful Gorton, who were among the early settlers of Poland, having come here from Massachusetts in 1820. They had one son and five daughters. Mr. Gorton was a manufacturer of axes and scythes; died May, 1863; and Mrs. Gorton in April, 1882. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/jarvis528gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb